[14] Bulaeus Historia Univ. Paris., vol. iii. pp. 701, 702.
[15] Sir James Dalrymple’s Collections, pp. 226, 255. There was also a school at Dryburgh, where Sibbald says Sacrobosco studied, but had Scot entered here he would hardly have been distinguished in later years as a man in close relation with another order—the Cistercian.
[16] Not excepting the north. ‘Morebatur eo tempore (c. 1180) apud Oxenfordiam studiorum causa clericus quidam Stephanus nomine de Eboracensi regione oriundus,’ Acta Sanctorum, Oct. 29, p. 579. At the exodus in 1209, no less than three thousand students are said to have left Oxford.
[17] Opus Majus, ed. Jebbi, pp. 36, 37. The words are ‘Tempore Michaelis Scoti, qui, annis 1230 transactis, apparuit, deferens librorum Aristotelis partes aliquas,’ etc. See infra, [ch. viii].
[18] See Anderson, Scottish Nation, sub nomine.
[19] Lay of the Last Minstrel, Note Y. See infra, [ch. x].
[21] Romance of Elinando.
[22] He probably joined the Cistercian Order.